Chapter 009 Catching Yellow Eel

This Yang Xia is too unfilial, and before the remuneration has arrived, he talked with his father about the dirty matter.

In fact, this is not Yang Xia's unfilial piety, but great filial piety.

As a reborn, don't you know how cheap all kinds of antiquities, stamps, etc., including silver dollars, copper coins, etc., are in this era? Many people in later generations are complaining that they have no eyes, do they want to let Yang Xia be reborn and continue to have no eyes? At this time, Yang Xia had a sum of money in his hand, and its role was a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times greater than that of Yang Dad.

But Yang Xia also knew that this manuscript fee would not be used until at least after September, so it was too far to say how to spend it at this time. What he needs is that from now on, he must master a sum of money, which is not too much, even a few dollars.

Cutting the shuttle grass is far from quenching the thirst, because the supply and marketing cooperatives have to wait until after the autumn, when the farmers around the country dry the shuttle grass before they start to buy, and the tung oil is also the truth, and it is not yet mature.

"Dad, I want to catch yellow eels at night." A few days later, the time was close to August, Yang Xia couldn't help it, and said to Daddy Yang again.

"Why can't you work for a few days? Are you so lazy to do it, aren't you afraid of what others say about you? Father Yang criticized.

"Dad, how can I be considered lazy. You calculate this account, the production team gives me 8 points of labor every day, and I count it into my hand, but it is just more than 1 dime, a few taels of grain [Note 1], I will go to catch yellow eels at night, I promise to come back every day, how about handing over 5 dimes to you? ”

"What's wrong with you all this time, you've been thinking about money?" Father Yang asked very dissatisfied.

"Dad, I think my future lies in reading, I want to earn some money, because I want to buy some books to read, the ancients said, read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles."

Father Yang glanced at Yang Xia twice: "Okay, you have to pay attention to safety." I know you want to use a flashlight at home, so you can use it too. ”

After all, Yang Xia is the eldest son of Yang Dad, and he is not too demanding, besides, Yang Xia's recent performance is also in his eyes, compared with the past, the time when he was admitted to high school has indeed become more, sensible, filial, and kind words are all changes for the better.

In the summer of the hills of Shuzhong, because of the planting of rice, the cement in the ditch is full of water, and the use of pesticides and fertilizers has just started at this time, although wild eels dare not say that they are everywhere, but they are relatively easy to catch.

Catching eels at night is not something that can be caught if you want to, it requires considerable skills, and this technique, Yang Xia in the previous life was very familiar with it, and in this life, it just works. From the point of view of the tool, a flashlight or torch is indispensable, otherwise the yellow eel will not be visible at all, and it doesn't matter if there is a bamboo clip, Yang Xia does not need a bamboo clip, but catches it directly with his hands. A bamboo basket containing yellow eels is indispensable, otherwise the captured yellow eels can only be strung away if they are all shot to death.

Does anyone still remember the image of the basket, the shape of the mouth with a small neck and a small belly, and a reverse bamboo cover on the mouth, which can put fish or yellow eel in, but it is difficult for the yellow eel and the fish to run out, the big basket can hold more than ten catties of fish or more, and the small one can only hold two or three catties.

If you think that catching yellow eels is to catch them directly with your hands, then congratulations, it is estimated that you have caught one of them all night; Some people may say, I know, it's right to pinch with your hands, and if so, congratulations, you may not be able to catch an eel either.

Grab it directly by hand instead of a bamboo clip, it should be a "fork"! That is, the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of the right hand make a trinominal, in which the middle finger is in front, the index finger and the ring finger are behind, when the yellow eel is seen, the hand fork is violently forked against the front half of the yellow eel, when the yellow eel is forked, tighten it and lift it tightly, and then share both hands and put it into the basket.

At such times, the basket is usually tied around the fisherman's waist.

Although there are yellow eels everywhere, there are not many people who really go down to the ditch to catch them, one of the reasons is naturally that the yellow eels mostly come out in the second half of the night to move, and the people at this time are extremely tired, who wants to get up halfway; Second, not everyone has the technology and equipment, at least not every family has a flashlight, otherwise Uncle Benshan's sketches will not attract everyone's smile; Third, farmers at this time generally did not like to eat things like eels and loaches, because there was a lack of clear oil that was the most indispensable for making fish at home; Fourth, many people don't have this technology; The fifth is that even if you catch the yellow eel to sell, it can be sold at most to about three triangles or five corners per catty.

In fact, the most important thing is that the peasants do not have time to sell on the street at all, and at this time, they must take leave from the production team without work, and they can only take leave to go to the street at most twice a month. Of course, there are also some people who do not listen to the arrangements of the production team, and such people are either used to stealing chickens and dogs, and have a very thick skin, such as "second-rate children", or they are re-education through labor prisoners who have been released from prison, otherwise, as long as they are normal and healthy, they will listen to the arrangements of the production team, which is to listen to the party.

However, Yang Xia happened to not belong to the production team, nor was he a prisoner or anything like that, because Yang Xia had not yet reached the age of being managed by the production team, and when he reached that age, he went to school again.

Therefore, in the entire Caijiawan, only Yang Xia has this opportunity to catch yellow eels.

Some people may think that it is so romantic and interesting to catch yellow eels in the ditch. If someone thinks like this, Yang Xia is willing to exchange with him and do those unromantic things. Catching yellow eels is a skill that fights with the sky and the earth and things, a labor skill, and a skill that people have to master in order to survive.

People who say romance are actually people who don't suffer hardships, and they are those who don't have to worry about food and clothing in life. Because they are holding the yellow eel, they can happily braise and dry stir-roast. In this era, if you give a pound of yellow eel to a farmer, there is an 80% chance that he will not want it, because he has no clear oil at home, and he can't suppress the fishy smell of yellow eel. Ten percent of them may want your eel, not because he wants to eat it, but because he probably has one or two cats at home, and cats like to eat eels.

In short, from this night on, Yang Xia began his great business of catching eels.

The reason why Yang Xia went to catch eels was related to the fact that he knew a person. Speaking of which, this person also knew in a previous life, and he has only heard of it so far. There is a labor prisoner surnamed Lan in the Xigou Brigade next door, this person is rotten and has never participated in the labor of the production team. If you don't give him food, he will sit at the door of the production captain's house and watch your family eat.

This person has a side business, which is to buy yellow eels from Qixiang and Eight Villages, and after receiving a certain amount, he rode a broken bicycle to the county seat. In his previous life, when Yang Xia graduated from high school, he began to have several transactions with this person named Lan Mingzhong, and later became relatively good friends, drinking a few times on Chiquan Street.

At this time, everyone will not deal with Lan Mingzhong, in a word: That's a bad person! It's equivalent to people watching movies at this time, and at the beginning of the movie, people keep asking: Is this person a good person or a bad person, looking at the appearance of the suit and leather shoes, it must be a bad person, right?

Only Yang Xia or the people who often catch yellow eels understand that Lan Mingzhong is a very good person, because trading with him is completely undeceiving, and the price is based on quality. The bigger the eel, the higher the price.

Perhaps, Yang Xia, as a reborn person, really has the benefits or luck of going against the sky. On the first night, he caught a yellow eel weighing 0.9 catties, this kind of yellow eel, generally does not come out of the hole, even if it is out of the hole, it is difficult to catch.

The bigger the yellow eel, the higher the price, this 0.9 catties of yellow eel, Lan Mingshen didn't say a word, he bid 1 yuan and 1 catty, that is, this one, not sold for 9 dimes, other yellow eels of different sizes, sold for another 0.8 yuan, this night, Yang Xia earned 1.7 yuan, and when he sold the yellow eel, there was at least half an hour left Liang, Yang Xia can be said to have earned the money that others can earn in a few days.

Lan Mingzhong's service is very good, he sells yellow eels there, and when everyone is thirsty, they can also drink a glass of free saccharin water. Yang Xia, who came from later generations, naturally did not drink his saccharine water, but only drank a large bowl of boiled water.

However, Lan Mingzhong harvested yellow eels, and he didn't want any of those yellow eels that were close to death, that is, the kind of people who used their death force to whip yellow eels couldn't sell them for money. There are so many yellow eels, and living things are not worth a few dollars, who wants to eat dead things, who knows how your yellow eel died.

Yang Xia fully understands these truths and requirements.

got in touch with Lan Mingzhong, which not only solved his urgent needs, but also laid the groundwork for future development. Because people like Lan Mingzhong are not tolerated by the mainstream society, but they are like fish in water in society, later, the reason why Yang Xia drank with Lan Mingzhong a few times was not because of the relationship between selling yellow eels, but because Yang Xia was a university teacher and a talented man who went out in Chiquan Town, and Lan Mingzhong was already one of the top bosses in Chiquan Town at that time, and it was a third party in the middle that everyone got together, and then they became friends.

Of course, Lan Mingzhong's final development was not large, and his family property was only a few million, which was because of his lack of knowledge. But it is irrefutable that Lan Mingzhong is undoubtedly the first person in Chiquan District to go to the sea, and the person with the most brilliant brain.

Of course, Yang Xia does not have to catch yellow eels every night, but goes out once every night or two, and the place where he catches yellow eels must also be constantly changing, it is impossible to keep catching them in one place, there are not so many stupid yellow eels in the world for you to catch.

Even so, in half a month, Yang Xia also earned about 12 yuan, except for 4 yuan to his mother, the remaining 8 yuan was collected by Yang Xia.

Yang Xia was thinking about when he would be able to earn 20 yuan, when heavy rain fell in Shuzhong and flash floods broke out.

Seeing this, Yang Xia carried fishing nets and other fishing tools, and rushed out of the door in the heavy rain.